My instagram posts disappeared after phone number verification.

Hello guys, I googled and saw some ppl have same issues, but still need a solution. Yesterday I was posting a random video ,nothing illegal on my instagram account, then phone verification popped up so I got the code and verified it, however video disappeared after posting, I tried several times didn't work, but after few hours they appeared all together, like same post 10 times. OK deleted. Today morning I noticed that half of my posts are gone, I have an art account and have active following, I do cartoon and comic illustrations so nothing pornographic or anything. They are just gone... My ''total posts'' still show 375 but only around 200 are visible on my account. Posts don't show up in hushtags either. Can't find the way how to contact instagram, seems its impossible. Please share any experience. Thank you.

Could be a shadow ban. Cause my hashtags don’t work so just give it a few days that’s what I heard on YouTube. So I’m gonna give my Instagram a break for a week and hope for some results. If anything happens keep me updated!

This just happened to me too!! I have an art account and a lot of my recent posts disappeared after the phone verification step also my posts don’t show on hashtags. I did a lot of research and I understood that I am being shadowbanned because of using the same set of hashtags and it’s some kind of glitch in the app. Fortunately it supposedly only stays for 2-3 weeks. And the posts are supposed to come back again within a few days. So I guess it’s a matter of patience and waiting for it to resolve itself.

Hello guys!! My posts just magically appeared again. This is after 2 days of the phone verification step and the disappearing of my posts. So I guess it’s a matter of patience and waiting. Hope it works out for everyone!

same happened to me, they came back 10 minutes ago exactly after two days of phone verification. so happy, however they aren't visible in hashtags but whatever, seems like a shadowban and hope it will go away soon enough.

Thanks for the response. Yes I tried every '' solution'' nothing worked. my account looks so bad now, I'm upset. deleted hashtags on every post. However all the posts are available in my ''downloadable account data'' so download your data until something worse happened. At least save your photos. Hope it will get fixed soon. :(